On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 11:50 AM, Dan Stewart wrote: > I just realized that you have a single 20 gig drive. You won't be > able to > install multiple versions of OS X, because the bootable partition needs > to > be entirely inside the first 8 gig of the drive. The 10.2 installer > will > tell you this if you try to install on a partition that is beyond 8 > gigs. > > That's one of the reasons why I have multiple drives on this > machine. I > have 2 10 gig drives (1 IDE and 1 SCSI) and 3 4 gig drives (all SCSI). > It's > nice to have space to play with this stuff!
I believe I read somewhere that the 8gb boot limitation only applies to IDE drives? I've got my 18.2gb SCSI carved up into three partitions and had assumed this whole time that only the two small ones at the "front" of the drive were usable for booting OS X. Am I wrong? Also, my boot volume is only 2gb (~ is on the main partition). Did the essentials get much larger with 10.2? --Bryan -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
